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The Pew Charitable Trusts - Pew Scholars Program

NOTE: The invitation to apply has not been received yet. Any changes to the guidelines will be handled administratively.

Internal Competition Completed

Principal Investigators Selected:

Miljan Simonovic, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, COM

Program Summary

The Pew Charitable Trusts invites nominations for the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences. The program provides funding to young investigators of outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of human health. The award provides $240,000 in flexible support - $60,000 per year for a four-year period. In 2011, the Trusts will name 22 Pew Scholars.

The Pew Scholars Program is open to individuals with a doctorate in medicine or biomedical sciences. As of November 1, 2010, candidates must hold full-time appointments at the rank of assistant professor or equivalent. On July 1, 2011, they must not have been in such an appointment for more than three years, whether or not such appointments were on a tenure track.

Pew Scholars may not simultaneously be supported by similar private foundation awards during the first two years of the grant. These awards include but are not limited to those of Searle, Ellison Medical Foundation, Beckman, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. We encourage you to nominate a candidate who does not already have significant private funding nor is being nominated simultaneously for such awards.

UIC is restricted to one nomination.

Additional Information
www.pewscholars.org

Deadlines

UIC Internal Notice of Intent (Required)	July 30, 2010
UIC Internal Competition (If necessary)	August 16, 2010
Sponsor Letter of Intent	NA
Sponsor Full Application	12 noon EDT, November 1, 2010

Letter of Intent

Depending upon the number of LOIs submitted, OVCR might be required to facilitate an internal peer review process to select UIC’s submission(s) to this program. White paper instructions will be posted if necessary.

eLOI Form & Instructions – Adobe Acrobat Requirements

Download the file directly to your computer or to a disk, right click on the link, then select "save link as" or "save target as" from the dropdown options.
Open eLOI.
Position the hand pointer inside a form field and click.

To accept the field change and go to the next field, press Tab or use your mouse to click on the next form field.
To accept the field change and go to the previous field, press Shift + Tab or use your mouse to click on the previous form field.

Complete the form fields.
After completing the form, click “Save” then click “Submit to RDS@uic.edu”.

Letter of Intent (LOI): eLOI Form (Fillable PDF*)

*Please note:

Fields highlighted in red are required to successfully submit the form.
Do not print then submit scanned version of e-LOI via email.

White Paper Instructions

Submit one electronic (.pdf) copy containing the following information:

One page cover sheet with following information:

Name, Departmental Affiliation, and contact information of PI
Sponsor and sponsor program name
Title of White Paper proposal
Total Budget Request Amount (not detailed budget, just total amount requested)
Unit Business Manager or Grant Coordinator contact information

One page Self-assessment – brief description of most significant research contribution to date, highlight of particularly creative and risk-taking aspects of proposed research, and a statement of how the receipt of the Pew Scholarship would benefit the applicant.

Three page summary proposal (incorporating all figures, diagrams, and drawings) which includes following:

Description of proposed research. This should include

statement of the project to be undertaken
aims and objectives
methods to be used
potential significance of the research
description of how project fits applicant’s “big picture” plans – do not be concerned to delineate a separate non-overlaping project as this scholarship is meant to support your overall research program.

An additional fourth page may be used exclusively for references.
Attach the following for PI:

2 page CV.
1 to 2-page list of publications – list only complete articles published or in press by peer reviewed journals for which you were the first or a contributing author.

Narrative must be in standard font no smaller than 12-point. Single spacing allowed. Minimum margin is ½ inch all around.

Please contact Jennifer Czak at jpaliga@uic.edu or 6-2590 with any questions.

If an authorized principal investigator is not listed above, please consider the limited competition still open. Contact RDS@uic.edu for further information.